Government mandating

The Japanese health ministry "tightly controls the price of health care down to the smallest detail.

Every two years, the doctors and the health ministry negotiate a fixed price for every procedure and every drug.

Because of these mandates, government entities will be the leading force of electronic document exchange as a standard for supply chains.

Since this forces companies to adopt these methods, they will look for ways to leverage this new technology in other ways to distribute the cost impact. It won’t be long before we’ll see most companies requiring electronic invoicing for all suppliers.

Fruit and vegetable marketing orders are a relic of the New Deal, authorized by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937.